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[aspen]

Bob Brown now ex senator has been given The Australian Geographic Society's Lifetime of Conservation award.He has been at the front of environmental issues and battles for 40 years and is well respected by all environmentalist and to a lesser degree  those opposed to him. His manner and integrity has won over where direct confrontation has sometime gone awry.  

http://www.australia...s-bob-brown.htm

[artistry]

Very impressove person. He is certainly deserving of the award. Nice to see people giving so much of themselves.Thanks for sharing the information.

[MyDigitalpoint]

Indeed!

An impressive professional career and an inspiring personal life if you follow the links on the article to learn more about his background.

[Hardison]

Yes, he is definitely a remarkable indivdual A man of reason. My favorite part of the article:

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"Here we've been spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to try and find the tiger when it's extinct. Why not use that money to save species that are now nearly extinct?

[zararina]

Reading more about it makes me also think that he is a really nice person and deserving of such appreciation. Hope more politicians and servants of the people as well as "we" could at least contribute for our mother earth which is also for all of us specially for the future generation.